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New York Studio School Tour
New York Studio School Tour SOLD OUT In our historic neighborhoods, each day we pass by fascinating buildings rich in culture. Do you ever pause and wonder “what’s behind those…
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Back to School! GVSHP’s Children’s Education Program
…school teacher, or a parent of an elementary school child, and you are interested in GVSHP’s Children’s Education program, please let us know. You can call 212-475-9585 x 34, or…
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New York School Painter Janice Biala’s “Pendulating Spirit”
…York School of Artists. Referred to as “the Artists’ Sessions at Studio 35,” the conference took place from April 21-23 in 1950 — one year before the landmark Ninth Street…
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New School Building
New School Building, 14th Street & 5th Avenue Village Preservation led the effort to change plans by The New School to build a dramatically out-of-scale, out-of-context new facility on this…
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African American Movers and Shakers of the East Village: Walking Tour
African American Movers and Shakers of the East Village: Walking Tour From playwrights and poets, to artists and musicians, African Americans made great contributions to the vibrant culture of the…
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Village Preservation Historic Plaques Honoring African Americans in Our Neighborhood
…also serves as an obvious reminder that a site is historically significant. For African American History month, we’re taking a look at a number of historic plaques we’ve placed throughout…
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Greenwich Village Historic District 50th Anniversary Celebration and Open House Weekend!
…II: Our African-American Village presented by St. John’s in the Village Church In the 1640s freed African slaves settled what is now Greenwich Village. Since then the Village has occupied an…
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3000 Beatniks and the Right to Free Speech
…emerged over the next two turbulent decades around free speech issues. It remains a cornerstone of the long fight for free speech and artistic expression in our city and country….
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Art in the Village: The Ashcan School
Robert Henri, “Snow in New York” (1902) The Ashcan School refers to a loosely knit group of urban realist painters based in New York City during the early 20th century….
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Site-Specific Works at The New School Art Collection: A talk and slideshow with curator Silvia Rocciolo
Site-Specific Works at The New School Art Collection: A talk and slideshow with curator Silvia Rocciolo Learn about the history of The New School through the lens of important site-specific…
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Black History Month Advocacy: African American Artist and Educator Selma Hortense Burke’s Home at 88 East 10th Street
88 East 10th Street (l.); Selma Burke. We are thrilled to share our recent research uncovering and documenting that trailblazing African American sculptor and educator Selma Hortense Burke lived, worked,…
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Support Rolls in for Saving For 50 West 13th Street, Home of Theater and African American Civil Rights History
…the home for decades in the 19th century of one of New York’s leading African American citizens and civil-rights leaders needs the landmark protection we are calling for from New…
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Highlighting Landmarking Effort for 50 West 13th Street’s African American Voting Rights Crusader on MLK Day
…African American citizens, and a crusader for abolition, equality, and voting rights for African Americans. Mayor de Blasio refused to support landmark designation of the site. With the building having…
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VILLAGE VOICES 2022 Highlights the Extraordinary History of 70 Fifth Avenue
…for an African-American audience and for African-American children, and what would become the American Civil Liberties Union, among many other entities. Following a campaign led by Village Preservation, the building…
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Let Freedom Ring: The East Village’s (Older) Liberty Bell
…reached the ground, current presiding minister Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis rang the bell 19 times — commemorating both Juneteenth and the first enslaved Africans brought to this nation in 1619….
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The Hebrew Actors Union and Second Avenue: Caretakers of Yiddish TheaterA Lecture by David Freeland
The Hebrew Actors Union and Second Avenue: Caretakers of Yiddish Theater A Lecture by David Freeland During the 1920s and 30s, Second Avenue south of 14th Street was the spine…
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Dunham School of Dance at 220 West 43rd Street
Katherine Dunham founded the Dunham School of Dance at 220 West 43rd Street in 1945, and the school stayed here until 1957. Dunham was a pioneer in folk and ethnic…
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Village Preservation & The New School Present: Artists and Greenwich Village Series – Keith Haring and the Streets of the Village
Village Preservation & The New School Present: Artists and Greenwich Village Series – Keith Haring and the Streets of the Village In 1978, 19-year-old Keith Haring (d.1990) moved to New…
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Robert de Niro, Sr. and the New York School Artists #SouthOfUnionSquare
…School — the neighborhood South of Union Square and its environs were host to a number of influential artists and movements like Abstract Expressionism, the Ninth Street Five, and “The…
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Old P.S. 64 on the L.E.S. — Immigrant School Innovator and Latinx Culture Leader
…model in public school design. Unlike many Snyder schools, this building’s design was not repeated for any other school location. Click here to read more about how this innovative building…
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African American, Feminist, & LGBTQ Solidarity at the Women’s House of Detention
…of the LGBTQ movement, took part in organizing around-the-clock protests of the prison. Protestor outside the Women’s House of Detention at the Prisoners’ Rights and “Free the Panther 21” demonstration,…
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The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois Reverberates Throughout Our Neighborhoods
…worked with W.E.B. Du Bois as a staffer of the Black newspaper Freedom in the early 1950s. Du Bois founded a later iteration of Freedom, called Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of…
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“A Road to Peace and Freedom”: The International Workers Order and its Civil Rights and Social Justice Work
…Judge’: Lynching Accounts in the Foreign Press” and his book “A Road to Peace and Freedom”: The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954….
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Celebrating The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan’s Greenwich Village
May is a great time to celebrate Bob Dylan. His album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan was released on May 27th, 1963, and Dylan will celebrate his 82nd birthday on May 24! Dig through…
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John Sloan’s Ashcan School Artwork
…one of the leading figures of the “Ashcan School,” a loose collection of artists who depicted everyday life in early twentieth-century New York. Adopting the nickname Ashcan, a derisive reference…
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Village Preservation & The New School Present: Artists and Greenwich Village Series
Village Preservation & The New School Present: Artists and Greenwich Village Series Jean-Michel Basquiat: Graffiti and Glory Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (d. 1988) began spray-painting graffiti art on New York City…
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Village Preservation & The New School Present: Greenwich Village Artists Series “I and the Village”
Village Preservation & The New School Present: Greenwich Village Artists Series “I and the Village:” Jackson Pollock’s Downtown Years, A Lecture by Larissa Bailiff Jackson Pollock moved to New York by…
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Cafe Bizarre, 106 West 3rd Street. This building was demolished and replaced with an NYU Law School dorm.
…that Andy Warhol first saw the Velvet Underground perform and became their manager. In 1984 NYU razed the building and several surrounding buildings for its D’Agostino Hall Law School Building….
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Cafe Bizarre, 106 West 3rd Street, which advertises ‘Fantastic Decor,’ ‘Folk Singers,’ and a steel drum band all for a 50 cent admission fee. This building was demolished and replaced with an NYU Law School dorm.
…that Andy Warhol first saw the Velvet Underground perform and became their manager. In 1984 NYU razed the building and several surrounding buildings for its D’Agostino Hall Law School Building….
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In Memoriam: African American Artists of Westbeth
It was a project like no other before. The first subsidized housing for artists in the United States, offering affordable housing and work space in New York City, Westbeth is…
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Exploring Black History in the East Village and NoHo
…found in the East Village and NoHo, starting with a theater group in the early 19th century. African Grove Theater The African Grove Theater was the first known black theater…
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Mountaintop
…records), a theater known as the African Grove Theater. The African Grove Theater was founded by William Alexander Brown, a free African American and pioneering actor and playwright. Through his…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Harlem’s St. James Presbyterian Church
…the opportunity to escape to Delaware, and then to New York City. Garnet, who attended the African Free School and the Phoenix High School of Colored Youth, began his career…
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Tiles Freedom
The 9/11 Tiles for America Memorial was created by Greenwich Village community members to honor the memory of those lost on September 11th, 2001, and the destruction of the World…
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LPC Application
657 Greenwich Street, St. Luke’s School
CB2 hearing: 09/20/2021 – see below to register for the Zoom meeting. To submit written testimony of any length in advance of the hearing, click HERE. LPC hearing: 09/28/2021 – see below…
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New Yorkers and Army pass by Police Line Outside 292 Greenwich Street, PS 234 Independence School
Professional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following…
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13 places in Greenwich Village where the course of history was changed
…these African slaves were granted freedom and given land in an area north of the New Amsterdam colony which came to be known as “the Land of the Blacks.” This first settlement…
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Building Profile: P.S. 25, now P.S. 751
…ten schools and one addition that Snyder built in the neighborhood, nine schools remain. Three of these date to the nineteenth century, and six still function as public schools. P.S….
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The Birth of the NAACP, and Their Deep Roots in Greenwich Village
…organization advocating tot the civil rights of African Americans in the United States. During the first decade of the 20th Century, the rate of lynchings of African Americans, particularly men,…
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February 2024 Programs: Black History Month Events, Artists’ Homes, and More
…Africans and Black Americans in Greenwich Village and beyond. Each of these free sessions will be held via zoom and requires pre-registration. Check out the individual sessions for additional details…
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Village Independent Democrats Collection: 1955-1969
…electing a School Board Member. View PDF. Page 1: Letter from Greenwich Village Association regarding selecting people for local school board Page 2: Letter from Department of Education thanking the…
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LREI: 2012 Village Award Winner
…least as part of a public school. Parents and reformers raised funds to continue the program, but the school system would not reopen the school. Irwin, along with parents and…
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Landmarks50- The Police Athletic League Building
…changed to Girls High School. In 1900 the school was renamed for Lydia Wadleigh, a teacher at Grammer School 47 and founder of the 12th Street Advance School for Girls. In 1902…
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Celebrating Black History — Explore Our Past, Advocate to Honor and Protect It
…movements in civil rights history. This includes more than four dozen connected to African American civil rights, from the first free Black settlement in North America to the sites of…
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The Supposed Streets of Little Africa
…his role as minister, Varick ran a school, was the first chaplain of the New York African Society for Mutual Relief and a vice president of the African Bible Society,…
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Setting Women Up for Success: Lydia Fowler Wadleigh
…Grammar School 47, an all-girls school which the landmark designation report notes “was one of the first New York City schools built exclusively for the education of girls at a…
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C.B.J. Snyder and P.S. 64
…schools, ten junior high schools, and twenty high schools. One of the most prominent and noteworthy examples of Snyder’s work can be found right here in the East Village —…
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A Landmark’s Long Fight for Life
The former Public School 64, which once housed the CHARAS community and cultural center, was designed by master school architect C.B.J. Snyder in the French Renaissance Revival style in 1904-06….
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This Black History Month, Village Preservation Invites You to Explore, Celebrate, and Advocate for Preserving Significant but Unprotected Black History Sites in Our Neighborhoods
…rights history. This includes more than four dozen connected to African American civil rights, from the first free Black settlement in North America to the sites of the deadly 1863…
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James Varick, the Village, and Zion AME Church
…mother were freed and moved to New York City. The church he helped found, what would grow to be Zion African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, had a profound effect on…
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12 social change champions of Greenwich Village
…dispersal of federal funds and decried the poor conditions at African American schools and facilities in her weekly column. She frequently invited African American guests to the White House, which…
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Joe Papp Created a Theater By and For The People
…was born—free Shakespeare in the Park—drawing thousands for every performance, then and now. After two successful seasons of free Shakespeare in Central Park, Papp ran afoul of the infamous Robert…
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Honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
…women who worked hard to secure their freedom from slavery in New Amsterdam. The last person executed in Washington Square was a young African American girl who attempted to escape slavery. And the original…
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Black History in Greenwich Village – Winter 2023 Series
…1620s to 1808. The series will discuss the children and descendants of the first Africans in America. These descendants owned property in Manhattan, built churches and schools, and created their…
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Finding the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…and helped introduce the masses to underground forms she mined and popularized. The Widow Marycke — One of a pioneering group of African Americans who formed the first free black…
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Women’s History and Our Civil Rights Map
…first colleges for women. Lydia Fowler Wadleigh (left) and Grammar School 47 In 1897, the site became the city’s first high school for girls; when that school relocated to Harlem…
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Fiorello LaGuardia — NYC’s ‘Greatest Mayor,’ One of Several from Greenwich Village
…LaGuardia High School of Music & Performing Arts Also in 1936, Mayor LaGuardia opened the High School of Music and Art, as a place for New York City public school…
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19th Century Fire at East Village Icon Changed the Skyline, and Safety Rules
…at 302 East 8th Street, the former St. Ann’s School at 113 East 11th Street, the Hebrew Free School at 624 5th Street (demolished) and St. Anthony’s School at 60…
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Sharpen Your Pencils: A History of 710 East 9th Street
…on earlier this week, we thought we’d take a look at another (even older) East Village school later converted to community use. This former H-plan school building was constructed in…
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Celebrate Black History Month and Protect the Rich But Endangered History in Our Neighborhoods
…Smith Garnet, as well as prominent African American businessman Jacob Day, who helped lead fights against slavery and for equal voting and civil rights for African Americans. The building has…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Harlem’s Mother A.M.E. Zion Church
…school, served as the first chaplain of the New York African Society for Mutual Relief and a vice-president of the African Bible Society, and supported the establishment of Freedom’s Journal,…
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Who Were the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo?
…the masses to underground forms she mined and popularized. The Widow Marycke — One of a pioneering group of African Americans who formed the first free black settlement in North…
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Who Were the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo?
…the masses to underground forms she mined and popularized. The Widow Marycke — One of a pioneering group of African Americans who formed the first free black settlement in North…
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Paulo d’Angola: the Former Slave Who Became One of Greenwich Village’s First Landowners
…and inheritance, denying free Black people all landowning rights and privileges. Within twenty years, the vast majority of land owned by people of African descent was seized by wealthy white landowners…
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Take a Virtual Walk! Visit the Homes of Greenwich Village’s Social Change Champions
…president of the first Congress and the first Chief Justice. John Jay I was also an abolitionist and co-founder with Alexander Hamilton of the African Free School, the first school…
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11 landmarks of immigration in Greenwich Village
…School for Social Research’s “University in Exile,” 66 West 12th Street Via Wiki Commons The New School was founded in 1919 by progressive intellectuals “looking for a new, more relevant model of education,…
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Celebrating the Landmarks of Immigration in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…and students would be free to honestly and directly address the problems facing societies.” But one of the most critical chapters in the school’s hundred-year history came in 1933 when…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: The Hebrew Technical Institute, 9th and Stuyvesant Streets
…Street until 1939. A non-sectarian school, it was one of the first technical schools in the United States. The United Hebrew Charities, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, and the Hebrew Free School…
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